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Revolutionary Organization 17 November

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Revolutionary Organization 17 November (also known as 17N or the 17 November Group; Greek: Επαναστατική Οργάνωση 17 Νοέμβρη, Epanastatiki Organosi dekaefta Noemvri) was an urban guerrilla organization (characterized as a terrorist group by the Greek state, the United Kingdom, Turkey, and formerly by the United States) formed in 1975 and believed to have been disbanded in 2002 after the arrest and trial of a number of its members. [1]

54 relations: Alexandros Giotopoulos, Andreas Papandreou, Anti-Americanism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-imperialism, Apogevmatini, Athens, Athens Polytechnic uprising, Central Intelligence Agency, Cold War, Cyprus, Deutsche Welle, Eleftherotypia, European Union, George Koskotas, Greece, Greece–United Kingdom relations, Greek language, Greek military junta of 1967–1974, Halyvourgiki Hellenic Steel Industry, Ioannis Paleokrassas, Le Monde, Left-wing nationalism, Leipsoi, Libération, M1911 pistol, Marxism, Minoan Flying Dolphins, National Bank of Greece, National Intelligence Service (Greece), NATO, New Democracy (Greece), Operation Gladio, PASOK, Pavlos Bakoyannis, Revolutionary People's Struggle, Revolutionary Struggle, Richard Welch, Rocket-propelled grenade, Stay-behind, Stephen Saunders (British Army officer), Terrorism, Terrorism Act 2000, Terrorism in Greece, Turkey, Turkish military forces in Northern Cyprus, U.S. Army Field Manual 30-31B, United Kingdom, United States, United States Air Force, ..., United States Department of State, United States Navy, Urban guerrilla warfare, William Nordeen. Expand index (4 more) »

Alexandros Giotopoulos

Alexandros Giotopoulos (Αλέξανδρος Γιωτόπουλος; born 1944 in Paris) is serving a sentence of life imprisonment, having been found guilty in 2003 of leading the Marxist Greek urban guerrilla group Revolutionary Organization 17 November (17N).

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Andreas Papandreou

Andreas Georgios Papandreou (Ανδρέας Γεώργιος Παπανδρέου,; 5 February 1919 – 23 June 1996) was a Greek economist, a socialist politician and a dominant figure in Greek politics.

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Anti-Americanism

Anti-Americanism, anti-American sentiment, or sometimes Americanophobia, is dislike of or opposition to the governmental policies of the United States, especially regarding the foreign policy, or the American people in general.

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Anti-capitalism

Anti-capitalism encompasses a wide variety of movements, ideas and attitudes that oppose capitalism.

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Anti-imperialism

Anti-imperialism in political science and international relations is a term used in a variety of contexts, usually by nationalist movements who want to secede from a larger polity (usually in the form of an empire, but also in a multi-ethnic sovereign state) or as a specific theory opposed to capitalism in Marxist–Leninist discourse, derived from Vladimir Lenin's work Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism.

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Apogevmatini

Apogevmatini was a Greek newspaper that was published nationally for decades until its last owners, the Sarantopoulos family, declared its bankruptcy in November 2010.

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Athens

Athens (Αθήνα, Athína; Ἀθῆναι, Athênai) is the capital and largest city of Greece.

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Athens Polytechnic uprising

The Athens Polytechnic uprising occurred in November 1973 as a massive demonstration of popular rejection of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974.

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Central Intelligence Agency

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the United States federal government, tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT).

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Cold War

The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) and powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others).

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Cyprus

Cyprus (Κύπρος; Kıbrıs), officially the Republic of Cyprus (Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία; Kıbrıs Cumhuriyeti), is an island country in the Eastern Mediterranean and the third largest and third most populous island in the Mediterranean.

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Deutsche Welle

Deutsche Welle ("German wave" in German) or DW is Germany's public international broadcaster.

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Eleftherotypia

Eleftherotypia (lit) was a daily national newspaper published in Athens, Greece.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of EUnum member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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George Koskotas

George Koskotas (Γιώργος Κοσκωτάς; born 1953, Athens) is a former banker and publisher who spearheaded a financial scandal that brought down the PASOK government in 1989.

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Greece

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Greece–United Kingdom relations

Greek–British relations are foreign relations between the Greece and the United Kingdom.

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Greek language

Greek (Modern Greek: ελληνικά, elliniká, "Greek", ελληνική γλώσσα, ellinikí glóssa, "Greek language") is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece and other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea.

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Greek military junta of 1967–1974

The Greek military junta of 1967–1974, commonly known as the Regime of the Colonels (καθεστώς των Συνταγματαρχών), or in Greece simply The Junta (or; Χούντα), The Dictatorship (Η Δικτατορία) and The Seven Years (Η Επταετία), was a series of far-right military juntas that ruled Greece following the 1967 Greek coup d'état led by a group of colonels on 21 April 1967.

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Halyvourgiki Hellenic Steel Industry

Halyvourgiki Hellenic Steel Industry S.A. (Χαλυβουργική–Ελληνική Βιομηχανία Χαλκού Α.Ε.) has historically been one of the main steel producers in Greece, and the second largest after Viohalko.

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Ioannis Paleokrassas

Ioannis Paleokrassas (Ιωάννης Παλαιοκρασσάς) (born 27 March 1934 in Athens)ˡ is a Greek politician.

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Le Monde

Le Monde (The World) is a French daily afternoon newspaper founded by Hubert Beuve-Méry at the request of Charles de Gaulle (as Chairman of the Provisional Government of the French Republic) on 19 December 1944, shortly after the Liberation of Paris, and published continuously since its first edition.

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Left-wing nationalism

Left-wing nationalism, leftist nationalism or socialist nationalism describes a form of nationalism based upon social equality (not necessary political equality), popular sovereignty and national self-determination.

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Leipsoi

Leipsoi (Λειψοί, also: Lipsi) is an island south of Samos and to the north of Leros in Greece.

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Libération

Libération (popularly known as Libé), is a daily newspaper in France, founded in Paris by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July in 1973 in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968.

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M1911 pistol

The M1911 is a single-action, semi-automatic, magazine-fed, recoil-operated pistol chambered for the.45 ACP cartridge.

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Marxism

Marxism is a method of socioeconomic analysis that views class relations and social conflict using a materialist interpretation of historical development and takes a dialectical view of social transformation.

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Minoan Flying Dolphins

Minoan Flying Dolphins (MFD) was a Greek passenger and freight ferry company.

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National Bank of Greece

The National Bank of Greece (NBG; Εθνική Τράπεζα της Ελλάδος) is a global banking and financial services company with its headquarters in Athens, Greece.

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National Intelligence Service (Greece)

The National Intelligence Service (NIS) (Greek: Εθνική Υπηρεσία Πληροφοριών, ΕΥΠ, Ethniki Ypiresia Pliroforion, EYP) is the national intelligence agency of Greece.

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NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; Organisation du Traité de l'Atlantique Nord; OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 29 North American and European countries.

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New Democracy (Greece)

The New Democracy (Νέα Δημοκρατία, Nea Dimokratia), also referred to as ND (ΝΔ) by its initials, is a liberal-conservative political party in Greece.

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Operation Gladio

Operation Gladio is the codename for a clandestine North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) "stay-behind" operation in Europe during the Cold War.

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PASOK

The Panhellenic Socialist Movement (Πανελλήνιο Σοσιαλιστικό Κίνημα), known mostly by its acronym PASOK (ΠΑΣΟΚ), was a social-democratic political party in Greece.

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Pavlos Bakoyannis

Pavlos Bakoyannis (Παύλος Μπακογιάννης) (February 10, 1935, Velota, Evrytania - September 26, 1989, Athens) was a liberal Greek politician who was well known for his broadcasts against the Greek military junta of 1967–1974 on Bayerische Rundfunk radio.

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Revolutionary People's Struggle

Revolutionary People's Struggle (Επαναστατικός Λαϊκός Αγώνας), abbreviated ELA (ΕΛΑ), was a Greek far-left urban guerrilla organization formed in 1975 and disbanded in 1995.

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Revolutionary Struggle

Revolutionary Struggle (EA; Greek: Επαναστατικός Αγώνας, Epanastatikos Agonas) is a Greek group known for its attacks on Greek government buildings and the American embassy in Athens.

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Richard Welch

Richard Skeffington Welch (December 14, 1929 – December 23, 1975) was a CIA Station Chief (COS) killed by the Greek urban guerrilla Marxist organization 17 November (17N).

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Rocket-propelled grenade

A rocket-propelled grenade (often abbreviated RPG) is a shoulder-fired anti-tank weapon system that fires rockets equipped with an explosive warhead.

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Stay-behind

In a stay-behind operation, a country places secret operatives or organisations in its own territory, for use in the event that an enemy occupies that territory.

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Stephen Saunders (British Army officer)

Brigadier Stephen William John Saunders (26 July 1947 – 8 June 2000) was a British Army officer who, while serving as the British military attaché in Athens, was assassinated by members of the Greek urban guerrilla Marxist organization 17 November (17N).

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Terrorism

Terrorism is, in the broadest sense, the use of intentionally indiscriminate violence as a means to create terror among masses of people; or fear to achieve a financial, political, religious or ideological aim.

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Terrorism Act 2000

The Terrorism Act 2000 (c.11) is the first of a number of general Terrorism Acts passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Terrorism in Greece

Terrorism in Greece has been primarily committed by far-left revolutionary organizations and foreign groups.

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Turkey

Turkey (Türkiye), officially the Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti), is a transcontinental country in Eurasia, mainly in Anatolia in Western Asia, with a smaller portion on the Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe.

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Turkish military forces in Northern Cyprus

The Turkish military forces in Northern Cyprus (Kıbrıs'taki Türk Silahlı Kuvvetleri), officially Cyprus Turkish Peace Force Command (Kıbrıs Türk Barış Kuvvetleri Komutanlığı) is the Turkish garrison on Cyprus.

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U.S. Army Field Manual 30-31B

U.S. Army Field Manual 30-31B is an alleged classified appendix to a U.S. Army Field Manual that describes top secret counter insurgency tactics.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Air Force

The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial and space warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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United States Department of State

The United States Department of State (DOS), often referred to as the State Department, is the United States federal executive department that advises the President and represents the country in international affairs and foreign policy issues.

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United States Navy

The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States.

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Urban guerrilla warfare

An urban guerrilla is someone who fights a government using unconventional warfare or domestic terrorism in an urban environment.

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William Nordeen

William Edward Nordeen (October 9, 1936—June 28, 1988) was an American diplomat.

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Redirects here:

17 November Group, 17 November Organization, 17 November Revolutionary Organisation, 17N, Epanastatiki Organosi 17 Noemvri, November 17 (resistance movement), November 17 (terrorist group), November Seventeenth, RO-N17.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Organization_17_November

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